Pauline Kirby (5493900611) - Original

Creator: United States Army
Subject: Kirby, Pauline
       United States Army Nurse Corps
       Walter Reed Army Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Type: Black-and-White Prints
Date: 5/4/1954
Topic: Neurobehavioral disorders
     Psychiatry
     Women scientists
Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-4824]
Summary: In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) had just been appointed Chief of the Nursing Service at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Kirby joined the ANC in 1926 and had served as the U.S. Army's assistant director of nurses in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, and assisted with the establishment of neuropsychiatric hospitals for wounded soldiers.
Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Persistent URL:Link to data base record
Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives

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